Time to Call a Truce in the Gender Wars
If you are a news and current affairs junkie like myself, you could quickly come to the conclusion that men and women are at war with each other across the…
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AR Devine
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AR Devine is a writer and published author. He won the Orwell Prize in 2010 for his blog, “Working with the Underclass,” written under the nom de plume of Winston Smith.
After Barcelona: Let the Denial and Excuses Begin
In the aftermath of yet another Islamist attack in Europe, this time in Barcelona, the usual excuse makers will still be trying to blame the Iraq war, or the Crusades,…
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In Bed with Homophobes: Thrashing the Left with Their Own Yardstick
As a secular liberal atheist I can’t believe that I am about to write an article that is partly in defense of the Democratic Unionist Party, but such is the…
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A Straight White Male Mansplains “Mansplaining”
Over the past decade or so the term “mansplaining” has entered our everyday vernacular. I don’t think it is conducive to constructive social and political discourse to coin a term…
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Geert Wilders: Enemy of Liberal Values, Symptom of Liberal Acquiescence to Religious Extremism
Common sense has prevailed in Holland. The Dutch people have returned Mark Rutte of the center-Right People’s Party to power. Whatever the legitimate criticisms Wilders and his Freedom Party have…
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Moderates in the Extreme: The Islamist Spectrum and its Challenge for Liberal Democracy
One day in 2011 when I was living in Manchester, I encountered a Christian fundamentalist standing on Market Street wearing a sandwich board that expressed some of the fundamentals of…
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Feeding the Two Far Rights: How Western Leaders Betray Liberal Values
The President of the United States and leader of the free world, Barack Obama, won’t even use the words ‘Islamic terrorism’ to talk about terrorism that is inspired by a…
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Louis Smith and the Media Enforcement of Blasphemy Laws
Did you hear there’s a film called ‘Life of Omar’ in production? It’s the Islamic equivalent of the Monty Python classic ‘Life of Brian’ in which a young Arab man…
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